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+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  runCommand,
+  fastahack,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "fastahack";
+  version = "1.0.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ekg";
+    repo = "fastahack";
+    rev = "refs/tags/v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-SWu2iRwNgdhsn4sH9/3jPNG3+l1xFAHXPq5/ODVd4WY=";
+  };
+
+  installFlags = [ "PREFIX=${placeholder "out"}" ];
+
+  passthru.tests = {
+    simple = runCommand "${finalAttrs.pname}-test" { } ''
+      mkdir $out
+      cp ${fastahack.src}/tests/* $out
+      grep -v ERROR <(${lib.getExe fastahack} $out/correct.fasta 2>&1)
+      grep -v ERROR <(${lib.getExe fastahack} $out/crlf.fasta 2>&1)
+      grep "ERROR: embedded newline " <(${lib.getExe fastahack} $out/embedded_newline.fasta 2>&1)
+      grep "ERROR: mismatched line lengths" <(${lib.getExe fastahack} $out/mismatched_lines.fasta 2>&1)
+      grep -v ERROR <(${lib.getExe fastahack} $out/trailing_newlines.fasta 2>&1)
+    '';
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Utilities for indexing and sequence extraction from FASTA files";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/ekg/fastahack";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/ekg/fastahack/releases/tag/v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ natsukium ];
+    mainProgram = "fastahack";
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
+  };
+})